Metal-bordered panel for desk furniture.



R. P. GROOKE. METAL BORDERED PANEL FOR DESK FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1908.

906,777. 7 Patented Dec. 15,190

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN F. CBOOKE, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BRADLEY & HUBBARDMFG. CO., OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

METAL-BOBDERED PANEL FOR DESK FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Application filed July 24, 1908. Serial No. 445,272.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN F. CRooKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in MetaLBorderedPanels for Desk Furniture; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specificationand represent, in

Figure 1 a perspective view of one form which a panel constructed inaccordance with my invention may assume. Fig. 2 a reverse plan view ofthe metal frame or border. Fig. 3 a plan view of the wood veneer panel.Fig. 4. a view of the tray in transverse section on the line aJ-b ofFig. 2. Fig. 5 a broken perspeotive view showing one corner of theveneer looking at its sheet-metal backing-plate.

My invention relates to an improvement in metal bordered panels for deskfurniture such as writing sets, book racks and kindred articles, theobject being to produce an ornamental panel presenting a surface of woodcorresponding to or harmonizing with the wood of "the desk on which thepanel is to be used.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a metal bordered panelhaving certain details of construction as will be hereinafter describedand pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I a ply a sheet 2 of Woodveneer to a sheet-meta backing-plate 3 preferably filled withperforations 4 for the reception of portions of the adhesive material,whatever its character, employed to secure the veneer firmly to themetal. This veneer 2 having been thus reinforced by the backing-plate 3,is set into a rabbet 5 formed in the back of a rectangular cast metalframe or border 6,

having a large central opening corresponding in general form to theveneer 2 but a trifle smaller than the same. The veneer 2 and plate3having been set into the rabbet 5 are secured in place by a rectangularsheet-metal retaining-plate 7 just enough smaller than the frame 6 tofit into the rabbet 5 and held in place by screws 8 entering threadedhubs 9 formed in the corners of the frame 6 and midway the lengththereof and located within the rabbet. For the clearance of thesethreaded hubs the veneer 2 and backing-plate 3 have their corners cutaway as at 9 and their sides formed with clearance notches 10.

The construction described permits, as will readily be understood, anyveneer to be used and finished before it is applied to the frame fromwhich it can be removed to be refinished should occasion arise.

In a metal bordered. panel for desk-furniture, the combination with ametal frame having a large central opening and formed upon its lowerface with a rabbet entered by threaded hubs, of a veneer of wood adaptedin size to fit the rabbet of the frame, a sheetmetal backing-plate towhich the said wood veneer is cemented, the said veneer and itsbacking-plate being cut away to clear the threaded hubs of the frame, aretaining-plate also adapted in size to fit into the said rabbet,

and screws entering the said threaded hubs and securing the saidretainingplate in place, and in turn holding the wood veneer and thebacking-plate in place, the former being exposed through the centralopening of the said frame.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

REUBEN F. CROOKE. Witnesses:

W. A. HALL, C. D. NEWBURY.

